Building Effective Interactive Polls for Lectures
byIn our previous article on Interactive Polling Tools, we reviewed three popular polling tools with the aim of helping you select the most suitable…
Teaching research
In defence of small teaching
byUniversities can often feel like places of endless optimisation, where grants, research papers, strategic documents and promotions applications, make the case for how much…
Learning analytics to improve referencing – call for collaborators
byThe Library has put together a teaching and outreach initiative to provide personalised feedback and learning activities to students having difficulties with referencing in…
Some design considerations for videos: Segmentation, synchronicity and signaling.
byCognitive design principles are essentially research-based guidelines that take into account the limitations of human cognitive architecture. In other words, if we understand the…
My experience of assessment in a fully online unit
byAs I’m currently enrolled in a fully online MSc programme, I thought I’d share some honest observations about my experience of being assessed in…
Tutorial teaching for the first time: some advice for preparation
byWith the beginning of semester 1 looming, many higher degree research candidates will be preparing to tutor for the first time. This is likely…
Cultural Competence within Introduction to Geology (GEOS1003)
byBy Gulnaz Beg (student ambassador), with Tom Hubble. We participated in the 2016 ‘Students as Partners for Cultural Competence’ project, designed as collaboration between…
Contract Cheating and Assessment Design
byThe MyMaster scandal involving several prominent NSW universities in 2015 highlighted the proliferationof contractcheating (or ghostwriting) of student assignments as a significant problem facingall…
Using data to deploy learner support actions
byAs part of the Innovation Week, the University of Sydney held a workshop on how to better use data to understand learners and provide…
Fear and anxiety are enemies of learning: 53 Powerful ideas all teachers should know
byAs we approach the three-quarter mark ofsemester 2, final assessments are in our students’ minds at the same time as we are trying to…